US grants Iraq 45-day waiver to im­port gas, elec­tric­ity from Iran

Iraq can con­tinue to im­port nat­u­ral gas and en­ergy sup­plies from Iran for a pe­riod of 45 days, the United States said, sev­eral days af­ter reim­pos­ing sanc­tions on Iran’s oil sec­tor.

“The United States has given Iraq a tem­po­rary re­lief from the sanc­tions for 45 days to con­tinue pur­chas­ing nat­u­ral gas and elec­tric­ity from Iran,” the US Em­bassy in Iraq said in a video pub­lished on its of­fi­cial Face­book page, Reuters re­ported.